Per David Souter. "Our biggest problem is civic ignorance". He went on to say "What I worry about is when problems are not addressed. People will not know who is responsible. And when the problems get bad enough ....someone will come forward and say 'give me total power and I will solve this problem.' That is how the Republic fell in Roman times. Augustus became emperor not because he arrested the Roman Senate. He became emperor because he promised he would solve all the problems that were not being solved." How prophetic he was.
